Friday, November 28, 2014

Interviewing the Burkinabé population / Interview de la population burkinabè par BINTOU OUEDRAOGO

Hi everyone,

It’s already another week gone and we just want to update
you with a flavour of our activities.

This week we carried out the various interviews announced in
the past weeks. Indeed, we interviewed the Burkinabe population about the
causes of intellectual disability. Interviewees included (among other things),
a fruit seller, a shop owner, a hairdresser and an official of the government of
Burkina Faso. Each gave his or her opinion on what they believe can cause intellectual
disability. Opinions were very varied; while some people believing intellectual
disability to arise from complications during birth and malnourishment, others thought
it to be caused by malformations of certain chromosomes and different
contraceptive methods that some women follow before getting pregnant.

Despite all these differences we have worked hard to achieve
a good video to show the real causes of intellectual disability and the rights
available to people who have learning difficulties. It must be noted that this
was not an easy job for us because we had to shoot many videos, repeatedly watching
and editing to identify and select the
best parts taken in the best conditions of lighting. We also added some
sequences of our activities at l’Arche Nongr-Maasem to make the video fun and
interesting.

We hope that the vision of this video will be able to touch
members of the Burkinabé population and enable them to understand and accept
people living in intellectual disabilities